It was just four years ago that an English team carrying the names of Strauss, Cook, Pietersen, Collingwood and Bresnan crashed to a five-nil home defeat at the hands of a Lankan unit ably led by Mahela Jayawardena in the ODI series that followed the 1-all test series.
Cricket's global chief Saturday admitted some venues were not yet ready for the World Cup in South Asia but vowed there would be no repeat of chaos that marred the build-up to the Commonwealth Games.